Halting the Haltering

Dr-to-be Megan is home for the weekend, and caused some trouble for Duncan. She needed to practice for next week's Clinical Medicine final exam, in which she has to demonstrate various skills in examining both large and small animals.

Unfortunately for him, Duncan is a small animal. So he got a free physical checkup, which he didn't enjoy very much. Finally he was pronounced physically normal, if uncooperative, and escaped. He thought that was the end of that. He was wrong. We moved on from dogs to cows.

Apparently vets need to learn a lot of knots to tie up various parts of cows during physical exams. Human legs and arms can be used to practice the "lifting the cow's leg" and "getting the cow's tail out of the way" knots (which actually have more technical-sounding names), but human noses aren't big enough to practice making temporary halters.

Enter Lamb Chop II. Duncan's Lamb Chop II! He wasn't pleased:

Eventually, he allowed Megan to tie the halter. But he was still worried. It looked awfully tight around the nose:

So he solved the problem. If having a big nose was getting Lamb Chop tied up, Duncan would simply remove the nose:

He really does enjoy unstuffing his stuffies – you may even have noticed a few clumps of another toy's innards under the table in that first video from an earlier incident.